Vizzini Attractions
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Vizzini is one of the places in the Monti Iblei which were re-built after the 1669 earthquake, so the townscape is characterized by Baroque churches and palazzi.
Vizzini has become immortalized in literature and the world of opera, as a result of its links with the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), whose novels about the region dealt mainly with farmers and fishermen. The novel called "Mastro Don Gesualdo" is set in Vizzini and the surrounding countryside, and so is the tale "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Alfio, for example, comes from Licodia, a few miles southwest of Vizzini). Verga also produced the stage version of this tale, which Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) set to music in his successful opera of the same name.
Vizzini is one of the places in the Monti Iblei which were re-built after the 1669 earthquake, so the townscape is characterized by Baroque churches and palazzi.
Vizzini has become immortalized in literature and the world of opera, as a result of its links with the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), whose novels about the region dealt mainly with farmers and fishermen. The novel called "Mastro Don Gesualdo" is set in Vizzini and the surrounding countryside, and so is the tale "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Alfio, for example, comes from Licodia, a few miles southwest of Vizzini). Verga also produced the stage version of this tale, which Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) set to music in his successful opera of the same name.
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